This 40 credit module is offered at bachelors and masters level by Plymouth University.

Key features

Gain the practical skills to manage patients presenting with common minor illness and injuries

Develop the underpinning knowledge and professional understanding of the practical and theoretical management of patients presenting with common minor illness and injuries across healthcare settings.

Consider the clinical, legal and ethical boundaries and recognise the limitations within your scope of practice and working environment.

Build on your prior experience of dealing with minor injury and illness.

Learn about the underpinning theory of anatomy and physiology, clinical assessment and specific history taking using a system approach to go on to diagnose using appropriate evidence-based practice, to ensure appropriate, safe case management and safety netting.

Analyse the professional issues, decision-making theories and national policies surrounding advancing practice and urgent and emergency care.

Demonstrate sound clinical reasoning and understanding of the complexities of the diagnosis and management of the older patient, the child, and the pregnant patient in the context of the presentation of a minor illness or injury within your scope of practice.

Demonstrate and critically apply high-level clinical knowledge when assessing a variety of body systems, with an additional highlighted focus on the underpinning anatomy and physiology.

Critically reflect on your effectiveness as an autonomous practitioner, with reference to the management of minor illness and minor injury in individual clinical settings.

Provide an advanced critical analysis of the evidence-based management of minor illness and minor injury.

Critically analyse the professional issues, decision-making theories and national policies surrounding advancing practice and unscheduled care.

Demonstrate sound clinical reasoning and critical understanding of the complexities of the diagnosis and management of the older patient, the child, and the pregnant patient in the context of the presentation of a minor illness or injury within your scope of practice.